SirLSD

can you take more pics that are in focus? and also a pic looking down at the tip?

i assumed it was mice because there was a mice once before that took too many and had to be destroyed (btw dont buy all plastic mouse traps that say they dont break the skin as they are too weak and the poor mouse survived 24hrs until i found it) back on topic now... this offender hasnt touched 3 mouse traps with cheese but eats lophs next to them so maybe not a mouse?? any ideas or solutions? appart from camping out all night in the shed with an air rifle?

faaarrrk. 4 nights in a row something has been chowing down on my cacti. i put mouse traps with cheese in there but hasnt touched them. covered up all the seedlings so now its gone after larger grafts. this is seriously fucking annoying!

count me in. might have to spread the christmas cheer too and give away some of my loph pups

its gone through most of the pots. least of my problems now. checked them this arvo and more than half have dissappeared completely, with a few half eaten corpses. probably about thirty or more gone over night. talk about fucking pissed off. put the rest into sealed containers with a few air holes till i work out whats going on.

this one was the one i bought for $5 a few years ago and i made all my other grafts from it. it hasnt been growing a great deal for the last year or so and has been putting out little roots from the underside. some of the newer grafts are biger than her so i decided it was time to degraft her and plant her. i cut it off a little below the graft and carefully tried to cut away all of the bottom cacti. i tried to drill away the woody stem as it was too hard to cut with a razor, but i slipped and drilled a hole in the graft . hopefully should heal fine. decided to leave some of the stem in it rather than risk it again. pics of 28/5/05 and 05/04/06 and today

definately bevel it. it will help keep the top flat as it dehydrates. otherwise the centre can sink and the sides can hold the scion up pulling its centre away from the root stock. also reduces thee likelyhood of the rootstock pupping from the top and knocking off the scion or stealing its nutrients.

growing in white sand pit sand. definately not fine roots. definately a pathogen of some sort. does look like ms smiths pic though i havent come across any of the mealies. anything else cause the same looking white fluff as root mealies? what should i use to treat that wont harm my little seedlings?

zee werp, yeah a number of my grafts have very shrivled root stocks but the scion is always well hydrated. and when i water them they dont seem to fatten up much. they definately havent been over watered though that is for sure. id rather underwater as i have problems with a bright yellow fungus/mushroom growing in several pots that i dont know how to get rid of. suggestions? there are 3 grafts in that pot. you can see in the first pic how big the middle one was compared to the others and now they are all about the same size. btw the middle one was on a m geometrans and the rest are on t pachanoi. cough. yeah will be interesting to see if it is able to grow any sort of a tap root will keep you informed on any progress

not with my camera

here in jpeg

cut off atleast 1 pup and graft it. i had 1 like yours about 3 years ago and grafted a few pups, then took a few off each of those, then a few off each of those,etc etc. that way you will end up with more than you know what to do with. then leave some to turn into a mass of pups, others cut off any pups coming off pups - so you have the primary one with secondaries around it. these are better for cutting off pups for grafts etc. if you let them go to be one big mass it gets difficult to cut off individual pups. btw want to swap one of your pups with one of mine? before you get bored with having a hundred all from the same cutting?

thought my pm is working but didnt get pm from you. pm got lost or hacked? anyone else not get a reply from me? email me at [email protected]

almost all of my lophs (mostly grafted)are a fairly caespitose form of L williamsii from the same genetic stock. they aren't really strict caesiptose as they can be trained out of the trait as seen in the skull pic. as they pup a lot when grafted you can quickly turn 1 plant into a whole heap. btw they are self fertile also. i am looking to trade some of these for other lophs to diversify my collection. can trade 1-7cm unrooted or recently rooted degrafted pups/clumps. looking for same size degrafted, or smaller ungrafted lophs. prefer if the variety/ area originating from is known but not essential. cacti1711062_001b.bmp cacti171106_004c.bmp

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i have a TBM with about 5 parts which is now starting to pup out of the tip of the penis. the others have a small scar where a spine from a new pup is just starting to form under the surface at the tips too. is this normal? there is plenty of free aeriols that it could pup from instead

this graft, and one other (same source) have always had this brown sagging soft skin at the base. it seemsthat the cacti produces new skin faster than it grows. as new skin is made the old skin collects at the base where it goes brown and wrinckles. as the graft has got bigger so has the brown skin. it doesnt seem to cause a problem, doesnt spread up the plant, and has never oozed anything. i have a couple of other graft of different variety that are just as old that dont have this problem. the oldest one is brown and wrinckly on the base but it is hard and dry. not soft. should i just continue to ignore it?

woops. wrong forum. please move to cacti.

either would be great.

lol. not brilliant. its a small pot with heaps of ~4mm holes poked through it. filled with expanded clay balls. put in a 2L icecream container. it now has an air hose in it but it didnt before. icecream container is half filled with a .5 to .75 strength flowering hydro fert or cacti and suculent liquid fert. solution topped up with water when it gets low. solution changed maybe once every month or two. no TDS or pH measurements taken. ideally if i wasnt lazy i would keep controll of pH and TDS levels and change the solution a lot more frequently. the roots arent a nice healthy white and rot sometimes but it only needs a few roots to draw enough water and nutrients for it. it has grown having no air and no water changes for 3 months at a time. though i will be taking more care if i enter the graft competition.

lol. what a crock

pic didnt work?

here is a pic. the circled pup started off as a small dot like the rest circled.

if i were going to try it (which i will not!) i would think dopamine injections would be far more effective than tyrosine or dopa as it is 1 or 2 steps further along the biosynthesis pathway. addition of S-Adenosyl L-Methionine could theoretically greatly increase the methylation of the dopamine as the plant might otherwise struggle to methylate such unnaturally large levels of dopamine. it would be very interesting to test the results of such an experiment if someone had a reliable accurate method of quantitative analysis. a friendly pharmacist or doctor could get 5 sterile dopamine concentrate ampoules (200mg/5mL) for about $34 and SAMe can be bought OTC or over the net.

you will be fine. not like you will gwt hung over like an alcohol binge